Publications

Dr. Michael Travis has spent the last 15+ years working to better integrate neuroscience into medical education and has recently spurred a collaborative effort to do just that. Dr. Travis worked with colleagues who share his philosophy from Columbia, Yale, and Brown to create the National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative (NNCI). This NIH-funded effort brings together clinician educators from across North America...

Genetic Risk for Schizophrenia and Psychosis in Alzheimer Disease DeMichele-Sweet MAA, Weamer EA, Klei L, Vrana DT, Hollingshead DJ, Seltman HJ, Sims R, Foroud T, Hernandez I, Moreno-Grau S, Tárraga L, Boada M, Ruiz A, Williams J, Mayeux R, Lopez OL, Sibille EL, Kamboh MI, Devlin B and Sweet RA Molecular Psychiatry, Published online May 2 2017 Psychotic symptoms, defined as the occurrence of delusions or...

Randomized Clinical Trial of Real-Time fMRI Amygdala Neurofeedback for Major Depressive Disorder: Effects on Symptoms and Autobiographical Memory Recall Young KD, Siegle GJ, Zotev V, Phillips R, Misaki M, Yuan H, Drevets WC, and Bodurka J American Journal of Psychiatry, published online 2017 Findings by Dr. Kymberly Young show that real-time functional MRI neurofeedback (rtfMRI-nf) training to increase the amygdala...

Distinct physiological maturation of parvalbumin-positive neuron subtypes in mouse prefrontal cortex Miyamae T, Chen K, Lewis DA and Gonzalez Burgos G Journal of Neuroscience, 2017, 37:4883-4902. Parvalbumin-positive (PV+) neurons control the timing of pyramidal cell output in cortical neuron networks. In the prefrontal cortex (PFC), PV+ neuron activity is involved in cognitive function, suggesting that PV+ neuron...

Relationship between Duration of Untreated Psychosis and Intrinsic Corticostriatal Connectivity in Patients with Early Phase SchizophreniaSarpal DK, Robinson DG, Fales C, Lencz T, Argyelan M, Karlsgodt KH, Gallego JA, John M, Kane JM, Szeszko PR and Malhotra AKNeuropsychopharmacology, Published online 2017 Patients with first-episode psychosis experience psychotic symptoms for a mean of up to 2 years prior to...

Connectivity between the amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) is compromised in multiple psychiatric disorders, many of which emerge during adolescence. To identify what extent the deviations in amygdala-vmPFC maturation contribute to the onset of psychiatric disorders, it is essential to characterize amygdala-vmPFC subregion connectivity changes during typical development. Dr. Maria Jalbrzikowski...